AI will redefine “who is a person”
Editor’s note: This article is from the WeChat public account “ Created” (ID: xingshu100), translated into one, edited Chen Xi, Tian Xiaona.
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From the day the machine appeared, humans began to think about their relationship with the machine, and embodied this thinking in film and television works.
In the movie “Terminator”, AI is the ultimate enemy of mankind, and it is necessary to kill human beings;
Hunting Robots in Terminator
In The Matrix, AI raises humans and controls the entire world;
Managed by AI
In the American drama “Western World”, tourists are killed by robots. All those who want to escape from the park are locked. The robots begin their way of awakening and resistance.
AI Rebels against Humans
AI seems to be the eternal villain in film and television works.
The reality is certainly not the case.
With the rapid development of science and technology, human beings are forming a cooperation mechanism with AI. The machine frees humans from the tedious and repetitive work, and the efficiency is greatly improved, and the error rate and cost are greatly reduced.
However, many people still have a lot of confusion and vigilance about the future of AI.
Where does the relationship between humans and AI go?
The future is human control of AI, or is AI in turn controlling humans?
Do you need to build trust between people and machines?
One day, AI will be smarter and more efficient than humans. What should humans do when this day comes?
With these questions, he made an interview with George Smoot, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, the Einstein Prize winner, and the father of the cosmic embryology.
Smoot said that AI will redefine “who is a person”
(Interview video can be viewed by clicking Original link)
Create: What is the relationship between humans and AI in the future? Is it collaboration or conflict?
Smoot: This question is very interesting. Now humans are working with AI to get the job done. Last year, the ratio of AI to human work was 2:8. This is no small achievement compared to the degree of digitization, and higher-level applications need to be judged in practice.
In the next two years, we expect the ratio of AI to human work to reach 4:6. After four years, the proportion of AI work will further increase. Changes in the proportion of work will change the way we work.
At this stage, we are forming a cooperation mechanism with AI. In the long run, AI will redefine “what people are.” Humans will no longer be defined by the work they do, and they will be defined by social activities and creative things in life.
In the short term, AI works with humans; in the next decade, AI will replace most of the people and jobs. Humans let AI operate social, economic and cultural life, and human beings can enjoy their achievements.
AI replaces human work
We will see that AI can do human work in a lower cost, more efficient, more focused, and full-time manner. At the same time, AI can make human work safer.
I give an example of a self-driving car: autonomous driving has been proven to be one to two orders of magnitude higher than a human driver. In the future, humans will no longer drive. Because human drivers pose a threat to others compared to artificial intelligence drivers.
We have a lot of demand for AI, we need robots for surgery, cars that need to be driven automatically… all of which will make the world safer, more efficient, and less expensive. There will be no more cars in the city, you just call the drip, it will drive to pick you up, the auto-driving car can take you where you want to go.
Application of AI in surgery
All of this is beneficial, but it also disrupts the existing social rhythm. Because the convenience we have enjoyed was provided by other humans, this is their job. Now, they will have to do other work to afford their own lives.
I believe that advances in technology can bring many changes to humanity: we can genetically transform it in a simple and cost-effective way; we can improve humans’ ability to fight disease, become smarter, more beautiful, and have better Physical strength. We can do a lot of things.
At the same time, we also need to compete with AI in many ways, and humans face many challenges. The first one is peopleThe ethics of the class; the second is the ethics of human and machine interaction. How do we deal with these problems?
We hope that the machines we design and train are friendly and good at communicating with others. There will be more and more AI in the world, and human beings must also be friendly. People and machines must work in small groups, which means building trust is crucial.
Build trust between humans and AI
The way to build trust is to be friendly. Make machines and machines, machines and people friendly.
Create: In the future, is human control AI, or AI controller?
Smuth: Now, the main driver of artificial intelligence is that they allow humans to do things they can’t do. They also allow humans to make lower-cost products and save money in production or jobs. . But ethical issues are far from being considered.
The rise of artificial intelligence is much faster than the progress of human civilization itself, which means that we need to pay attention to ethical issues. For example, what does it mean to interact with AI? People no longer do everyday work, AI replaces it, and AI is smarter and more efficient than humans. How do we deal with this situation? This is a daunting task.
Now, the source of artificial intelligence machine learning is human behavior. They mimic humans to learn. I believe that if your goal is to create artificial intelligence that is more human than humans, then you can achieve your goals.
You can let them watch all the movies to understand human nature, read all the books, listen to all the phone conversations… they can observe what humans are doing and then imitate human behavior. They can be imitated vividly, but they mimic the advantages and disadvantages of human beings.
Learn and imitate AI
Since artificial intelligence is learned from examples provided by humans, if humans have bad characteristics, they will be learned. Unless it’s smart enough to remove bad features from massive content, just keep good features.
So, the key to the problem is what AI is learning. AI finally controls everything, although people may think that control is in their own hands, but in fact AI is the controller. Human beings must teach AI to be friendly and do the right thing.
Human expectations, the arrival of artificial intelligence makes life better. At the same time, AI should develop in a more important and powerful direction. AI will be an integral part of our lives.
Create: How far is AI from self-awareness?
Smoot: This question is not so well answered unless there is a clear definition of consciousness.
I think that one day, people will interact with the AI system. The AI system will have personality, affection, ability to judge right or wrong, and express their consciousness in the way people describe, people will describe to them the various motivations they need.
Even technically, this doesn’t lead to AI awareness, but people will accept AI, a completely intelligent system that people think is similar to humans.
A scene from the movie “Robot Story”